Shobha Nagi Reddy, the YSR Congress (YSRCP) candidate for the Allagadda assembly constituency in Kurnool district, on Thursday morning succumbed to the injuries she suffered in a road accident near Nandyal on Wednesday night.

TNN | Updated: Apr 25, 2014, 04:59 IST

HYDERABAD: Shobha Nagi Reddy, the YSR Congress (YSRCP) candidate for the Allagadda assembly constituency in Kurnool district, on Thursday morning succumbed to the injuries she suffered in a road accident near Nandyal on Wednesday night. Hours after her death, the election commission announced that as YSRCP is only a registered and not recognized party, the Allagadda assembly election will not be countermanded and will be held as scheduled on May 7.

The funeral of Shobha, 46, is to be held at Allagadda on Friday afternoon and YSRCP president Jaganmohan Reddy has directed all the party candidates to suspend campaigning for the day and attend it. With the demise of four-term MLA Shobha, seven candidates are left in the fray in Allagadda and according to YSRCP sources, Jagan will most likely announce his party’s support to one of the independents.

Shobha was returning from a campaign meeting in Nandyal to Allagadda in her newly-acquired Mitsubishi Outlander. She was seated in the front passenger seat and the vehicle was being driven by a temporary driver while her two gunmen, Srinivas and Mahabub Pasha, were seated in the back. “Shobha did not wear a seat belt. It appears that the driver suddenly encountered paddy mounds on the road and in trying to swerve, lost control of the vehicle,” said Nandyal DSP Amarnath Naidu. The car overturned about four times and Shobha was thrown out of the vehicle, resulting in severe injuries on her head, neck and ribs.

The accident happened at 11.50 pm on Wednesday at Gubagundam Mitta village near Allagadda. All the four injured were rushed to a private hospital in Nandyal, but the doctors there said Shobha’s condition was serious after which she was rushed to a private hospital in Hyderabad. She was admitted at 7.30 am and pronounced dead at 11.05 am on Friday. Her eyes were donated to the state-run Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital by her family.

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